Useful Life for a Camera Body

JW · Post by JW » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:00 pm

By vintage and trustworthy Canon 10D body now has 16,000 exposures, and I am accumulating another 500 or so shutter clicks a week, thanks to focus stacking!

I am getting the occasional "error code 99", suggesting that electric contacts are starting to go bad, amongst other parts.

I don't want to be caught short without a camera body, but on the other hand will want to stretch budget towards other goodies (like a stack shot

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How many exposures is typical for Canon bodies?

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:22 pm

See http://photocamel.com/forum/canon-forum ... tancy.html.

I don't see that they list a 10D, but the lowest value for cameras that are listed is 50,000 exposures for shutter life.

I did finally wear through a 300D (also not listed) at around 60,000 exposures.

--Rik

seta666 · Post by **seta666** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:47 pm

here they have a good database of shutter life; you never know, a camera can die with a couple of clicks
http://olegkikin.com/shutterlife/

I bouth an EOS 5D with 70.000 actuation and after 15-20.000 more it started to die. (it still works but not for stacking, fails every 20-30 actuations)

Regards

macrochemistry · Post by **macrochemistry** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:41 pm

Thanks to some timelapse HDR Videos my Sony A550 made around 70000 shots in about one year

and is still working perfectly.
Hope my Sony NEX-5N which I bought for focus stacking has as at least similar life time

elf · Post by **elf** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:57 pm

I have two Olympus e330s with over 120,000 shutter activations each. I'm just waiting for one to fail so I can get a new reliable one.

Peter De Smidt · Post by **Peter De Smidt** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:38 pm

I had my shutter quit a few months ago on my d200, which I bought shortly after they came out. A new shutter was only about $250, which seems pretty reasonable.

pierre · Post by **pierre** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:51 pm

My 1000D's shutter was out after a 16 000 shots.
Well.. it was dedicated for the stacking and last one year and two months.
This appended just before Christmas

A blade of the 2nd shutter goes of through the others and mess up the whole function.

Well, regarding the cost of the repair operation and the cost of a 1100D, I ordered the new model and the day after ordering.
Technically curious, I tried opening my old friend but there were bolts not in a good mod, nor my screwdriver, and I finally give up on this surgery.

Finally, working from the front, I removed one after other each blade of the shutter, along it's metal support, avoiding any contact with the captor.

The purpose of this operation was to test the liveview , and the captor but I was very surprised, finding my 1000D working fine as before, even with a flash 2nd curtain synchro.

Well the "slag" noise still exist (shutter system works), and I have not performed a full test but it performs good enough for my use.

Since that operation, I have done hundreds of shots without worries.

I course, I do not recommend performing this operation: you can detroying you camera: It seems I was lucky this time

Any comments ?

PS sorry for my poor english.
Edit picture correction

conkar · Post by **conkar** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:43 am

There is a software namned EOSinfo that can get the shuttercount out of Canon EOS DSLR's.

http://astrojargon.net/EOSInfo.aspx

It worked when I tested it on the Canon EOS 5DmkII.

Regards,

Conny

shrek · Post by **shrek** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:11 am

Very nice Barite ,Pierre

jp

Craig Gerard · Post by **Craig Gerard** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:53 am

Pierre,

It would appear the image posted is more than a single exposure (possibly 3). Could you tell us the story about the image?

Craig

pierre · Post by **pierre** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:20 am

Thanks JP

Craig,

You are right.
It is a crop of a stack of 105 pictures.
Original field of view 4mm taken with 1000D modified+ bellows ext of 10cm + chinese noname x4 plan.

Those white crystals are named baryte.
It came from a french site "les Montmins", kindly provided for test by a friend.

Herewith a frame

SONYNUT · Post by **SONYNUT** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:59 am

i have 275,894 on my nikon d7000..still kickin

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:33 pm

The data at http://olegkikin.com/shutterlife/ makes clear that shutter life is highly variable and difficult to characterize.

For example, the Canon 450 is spec'd by Canon as 100,000 (according to the posting at photocamel). In contrast, the data at olegkikin says

Average number of actuations after which shutter is still alive: 20,334.1
Average number of actuations after which shutter died: 33,299.9

Looking closer, in olegkikin's data only 12 people reported values over 84,427, and of those, half the shutters were still alive. Only about 10% of the reported shutters had died by 30,000 actuations, and 5% of them had croaked by around 15,000. So the low numbers of actuations reported by olegkikin are mainly because people are not running their cameras to exhaustion. But as seta666 says, a camera can go out any time.

In my own experience, a Canon T1i croaked with maybe 10-15K exposures on it, a month after the warranty ran out. Sounds like the start of a bad story, but in fact Canon did the repair for free because the symptoms indicated a known manufacturing flaw. I was annoyed by the failure, but very pleased with Canon's handling of it.

--Rik

mgoodm3 · Post by **mgoodm3** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:43 pm

I hvae about 10k on my D300 and no problems.
I have a D200 and the aperture control went out at about 60k. Go that fixed and still going strong at around 75k for the shutter.